The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 92
‘Wonderful,’ said he; ‘I couldn’t have believed it possible.
Who acts: Jesper, I · What happens: say, not believe · To what, where: nap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jesper, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wonderful | punct |
| 2 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wonderful | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wonderful | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 believed | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 believed | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 believed | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 believed | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 believed | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 believed | aux |
| 13 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 believed | obj |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 believed | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jesper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not believe | could · perfect | I | nap | possible property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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